Sufi Mohammad Leaves Jail
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published January 16, 2018 | 02:44 PM
Prison authorities and a lawyer say radical cleric imprisoned since 2009 has left the jail in Peshawar after a court ordered him released this month on health grounds
PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Jan, 2018) Prison authorities and a lawyer say radical cleric imprisoned since 2009 has left the jail in Peshawar after a court ordered him released this month on health grounds. The 93-year-old Sufi Mohammad went to Afghanistan with thousands of other armed volunteers to help the Taliban fight against Americans following the 2001 U.
S.-led invasion. His lawyer, Fida Gul, says the ailing cleric was released on Monday night after which his family took him to hospital. Sufi Mohammad is the former chief of the banned pro-Taliban group, the Tehrik Nifaz-e-Sharia Mohammed, or TNSM, and the father-in-law of Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan.
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